{"id":23011,"date":"2014-05-08T06:50:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T11:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23011"},"modified":"2014-05-08T06:50:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T11:50:20","slug":"qotd-raising-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/08\/qotd-raising-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Raising consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A successor to \u201ccommitment\u201d is \u201craising consciousness.\u201d This is double-edged. The people whose consciousness is being raised may be given information they most desperately lack and need, may be given moral support they need. But the process nearly always means that the pupil gets only the propaganda the instructor approves of. \u201cRaising consciousness,\u201d like \u201ccommitment,\u201d like \u201cpolitical correctness,\u201d is a continuation of that old bully, the party line. <\/p>\n<p>Doris Lessing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/13\/opinion\/13lessing.html?ex=1350014400&#038;en=e065189878c17fdf&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink&#038;_r=1&#038;\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Questions You Should Never Ask a Writer&#8221;, <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, 1992-06-26 (reprinted 2007-10-13)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A successor to \u201ccommitment\u201d is \u201craising consciousness.\u201d This is double-edged. The people whose consciousness is being raised may be given information they most desperately lack and need, may be given moral support they need. But the process nearly always means that the pupil gets only the propaganda the instructor approves of. \u201cRaising consciousness,\u201d like \u201ccommitment,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41],"tags":[828,351,269],"class_list":["post-23011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-bullying","tag-politicalcorrectness","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Z9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23012,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23011\/revisions\/23012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}